The American Psychiatric Association is pleading with its members and all psychiatrists to stop analyzing President Donald Trump, saying it is "unacceptable and unethical" to engage in "armchair psychiatry."
The APA, which is the largest psychiatric association in the world, released a statement this week decrying members of the profession who are violating the "Goldwater Rule"—commenting on a public figure's mental state from afar.
"We at the APA call for an end to psychiatrists providing professional opinions in the media about public figures whom they have not examined, whether it be on cable news appearances, books, or in social media," the organization said. "Armchair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical."
The organization said it is impossible to diagnose someone from their tweets, adding that it "undermines the credibility and integrity of the profession."
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Satanic tatics lie and deception..to late the lost eat the lies up..but i seek the truth via the word
ReplyDeleteOne must be smarter than the subject to analyze the subject.That may never happen with Trump.
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ReplyDeletethere is no friggin' profession (Psychiatry).
It is quack science. Fake as a speckled snake.
Psychiatry has always been contrived as a means to enslave others.
ReplyDeleteIt was very wealthy banking families who funded the "findings of Freud and Yeng"
Today it is used to remove people's civil rights and including imprisonment of people who are deemed "insane" or a "threat". Therefore it is a political weapon used against the people by the ruling elite.
It is a very dishonorable profession.